the sibling relationship, with its swinging emotional pendulum of ‘No, I won’t lend you my phone charger’ to ‘Yes, I will give you a kidney’?
Your siblings have seen it all – they know your history; they were there at the beginning. They are infuriating and brilliant, sometimes at the same time.It’s particularly painful when one of you is suffering.
You have written in with a problem, but your sister’s unhappiness is coming off your email in waves. She won’t let her cat out – that controlling behaviour indicates to us that she has high anxiety levels.
Controlling people are not happy people and she’s living on a knife edge. You say she talks a lot. Maybe she can’t stop talking because otherwise she wouldn’t know if she exists.
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